Fiesta Continued

 

When I last posted about making Fiesta back in April I had most of the squares finished.  I did get the quilt top assembled but then put on the back burner as seems to be my way with quilts.   

I've been saving all the scraps of batting from the quilts I've made.  Some of them are large pieces and I had thought they could be patched together for a quilt.  I didn't want to try this for the first time on a gift quilt so I'm finally taking the plunge to use a pieced batting with Fiesta.  It seems appropriate because this is a scrappy quilt and, also, because it is for me it's a good project to try something new.  I pressed the pieces flat and then used a hand needle and thread to run a running stitch to hold them together until sandwiched.  Once the quilt was finished I don't notice the joins at all. 

This feels odd but after all the quilts I have made now I had never slept with one on my bed.  The quilted bedspread my mom made me is not warm enough on its own in the winter, so I wanted to test drive one of mine and used Fiesta to do this.  The differences are that mom's quilts have cotton batting while mine have polyester.  Yes I can hear the purists gasping but I prefer the higher loft from polyester and it is supposed to be warmer.  Also, I use flannel for my backing which is warmer than a smooth cotton backing.  And in the spirit of full disclosure, I have flannel sheets on my bed right now which I did not when I was using mom's quilt.  Having said all that, I find this quilt to be very comfortable temperature-wise.  I keep my house at a cool 67F for sleeping, and I am wearing flannel jammer pants and a tee shirt to bed.  I am sleeping really well with this bedding.  It is not heavy (which makes me feel like I *should* be cold but I'm not!) and I am very comfortable with it.  Having said all that, it may end up being too hot for a summer quilt, which the design lends itself towards!  I'll have to report back in five or six months when we get into the heat of the summer.